Thursday, May 14, 2009

Chimp and White Tiger Cubs


This item arrived in my email and the pictures are certainly worth sharing, so I've uploaded them onto my Picasa site so that others who read my blog can see them.

White Tigers get a new Mommy (Canadian for Mummy)!!

When Hurricane Hannah separated two white tigers from their mother, Anjana came to the rescue. Anjana, a chimp at TIGERS in South Carolina, became surrogate mom and playmate to the cubs, even helping with bottle feeding, according to The Sun. But here's the truly amazing part: This is something Anjana does all the time, having helped raise leopard and lion cubs on several occasions.

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